Collection Online as of June 25, 2018
Houses, c. 1936
not on view
color woodcut, Sheet: 33.7 x 43.7 cm (13 1/4 x 17 3/16 in.); Image: 23.5 x 35 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit 2003.366
© Mabel A. Hewit
Description
Before a woodblock can be carved, the board is usually planed, scraped, and possibly sanded to make it smooth. The surface is not always prepared properly, however, and in Houses the shallow, evenly spaced, parallel vertical ripple marks made in the wood by a machine planer transferred to the paper upon printing and are particularly evident in the sky.
Inscription
lower left margin, in graphite: Houses; lower right margin, in graphite: Mabel A. Hewit; lower left margin corner, in graphite: #1; inscribed, lower right margin corner, in graphite: 29 [This is inscribed by William Jurey]Exhibition History
CMA, June 26, 2010 - October 24, 2010: "Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit," exhibited in the Prints and Drawings Exhibition gallery.
Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 228): April 15, 2013 - August 12, 2013.
Research
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See also
Collection:
Prints
Artist:
Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984)
Type of art work:
Print
Medium:
color woodcut
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit